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heart_n	affection_n	love_n	thought_n	2,136	5	6.6030	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

know not how thou wilt be dispensed with Wilt thou know then how to anoide the daunger heereof and withall the breach of this commaundement thou must doe it thus viz in iudgement in righteousnesse and in trueth and so I conclude this commandement Many wordes neede not to be spent in The tenth commandement clearing the tenth and last which reacheth to the brideling of our affections If thou loue thy neighbour thou wilt not transgresse so much as in thought against him for the very motions of our hearts are able to seperate vs from the loue of God Rom. 7. 7. and the loue of our neigbour See how carefull the Lord is ouer vs he would haue vs not onely to watch our woorkes but our woordes also and our thoughts The former commandement of witnesse bearing is called by the learned Prieceptu● v●rborum the precept of words and this last may be called Man latum cogitationum the commandement of thoughts If God would haue thee watch thy words and thy thoughts how much more caref●lly would hee haue thee to watch thy deedes If God requireth thee to glorifie him in words much rather doth he require thee to glorifie him in deedes and if in deedes then most of al in charitable deedes if to speake well to thy neighbour then to do well much rather And here fit occasion is ministred to put you in mind of your poore neighbors deny not them foode and other necessities that they shall require how do we know but that God hath sent this famine vppon vs to try how we wil carry our selues to our brethren ●●● poore distressed members of Christs body we haue had many plentifull yeares Gods name be praised for it in regarde whereof and in testimonie of gratitude let vs not now shut our hands nor shut vp our doores lest it might be said that Pharaohs leane kine haue eaten vppe all the sutte kin● That which we giue it is not lost he that giues but a cup of cold water shall not loose his reward remember how God blest the dyle in the cruze and the meale in the bag to 1. King 17 th● poore widdow If thou giue to the poore thou dost not giue but lend and to whom dost thou lend but to the Lord he that giueth to the poore ●●ndoth to the Lord and looke what he layeth o●t it shal be paid him againe yea h● will paye it thee againe trebble in the double Consider thou giuest it vnto him who is 〈…〉 ●n●●●esh who is the Image of God as well as thou who is made of the same ●o●●d with thee who must be heire of the same promises with thee If in other things thy loue apeare not to thy neighbor yet in this it must needes appeare and shew it selfe by releeuing him so fulfilling the will of God who chargeth thee thus in the fifteenth of Deut. seuenth verse Deut. 15 7 If thy brother by thee be poore thou shalt not harden thy hart nor shut vp thine hand but shalt releeue him in his neede he that despiseth the poore despiseth him that made him if you shall thus do and in the feare of God I exhort you so to do to you then belongs that voice of comfort come ye blessed of my father receiue the kingdom prepared for you frō the beginning of the world for I was hungrie and you gaue me meate I was thirstie and you gaue me drinke I was a stranger and you lodged me I was naked and you cloathed me I was sicke and you visited me I was in prison and you came vnto me Know that Christ in the poore is hungry and thirstie and a stranger and naked and sicke and in prison and in asmuch as you haue done it vnto one of the least of these his brethren you haue doone it vnto him And now beloued that I haue shewed you all the circumstaunces in effect of this loue towardes God and towardes your neigbour which is all the duetie that the Lorde requireth of you in these his commandements enter into your selues sound yourselues whether this loue of God be in you or not As S. Paul bade the Corinthians to proue 2 Cor. 13. 5 themselues whether they stood in the faith so I not by way of commandement but by request rather intreate you proue and examine your selues whether this loue of God be in you or not It shall soon appeare by due examination as a vessell is iudged by the sound thereof to be either empty or full Happie is that man that can saye all these haue I kept The prodigall sonne was neuer halfe so welcome to his father as this man is to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

And the Prophet Dauid ioynes with thē Psalme ●3 in like consent the word of the Lord is righ teous and all his workes are faithfull And vnto this faithfulnes is another property annexed viz. Gods Iustice Heere is the second reason to induce vs to acknowledge our sinnes for God is iust He is iust in his anger and in his bountifulnesse who shall stand saith Nahum before the face of his wrathfull indignation and his anger is poured out like fire Ps 85. And againe it is an horrible thing to fal into the hands of the liuing God Heb. 12. Hee is iust to giue euery man according to his worke Reue. 21. therefore confesse for hee is iust Hee hath promised free pardon if thou performe this confession and of this pardon thou maist assure thy selfe because God is iust and cannot breake with thee To cleere this with many wordes were to poynt at the shining sunne and to light a candle at noone daie therefore I will descend to that which followeth That he may forgiue vs Though God be of power infinite yet wil he not saue mā without faith forgiue sinnes without repentance and a principall branch of this repentance is the confessing of sinne If thou treadest the path of repentance thus far foorth viz. to confesse thy sins and to bee ashamed of them and to be sorie for them yet if thou haue not faith if thou beleeue not that God is faithful and iust to forgiue thou commest short of true repentance For Iudas proceeded so farre as well as Mat. 27. 3. 4. thou yet he was damned because hee distrusted God he could not perswade himselfe that GOD would forgiue him and so he lost that which the theefe found Note therefore that three things are necessarie that sinnes may be forgiuen First Infusio gratioe the pouring of grace or working of Gods grace in vs as it wrought in Peter when he went to weepe Secondlie the remorse of the soule who fearing the danger of sin flies to god by repentance like the publicanes souldiours in the 3. of Luke to this belongs confessiō Thirdly a change of mind and casting off old affections by putting a new heart like Saul when a kingly spirit was giuē him The calling of sinners to repentance is liuely described by the calling of S. Mathew in whose calling we are to note foure things First he was sitting noting the carelesse securitie of sinners Secondly the place where he was viz. the seate of custome noting how this worldlie Mammon doth draw men from God Thirdly hee rose vppe shewing when grace is poured into vs then we rise frō sin It is not inough for vs to heare Christ cal but we must rise vp like Samuel and S. Mathew leauing our former state occupatiō Fourthly hee followed Christ wee must not leaue sinnes only before committed but we must indeuour to leade a godly life euer afterwards framing our selues to the example of Christ To furnish you yet with a coate of surer proofe then Saules armour euerie soule that meanes to possesse heauenly riches must be qualified with these properties He must first haue voluntatis mutationem a change of will 2 Ad deum conuersionem a turning vnto God 3 Peccati detestationem a detestation of sinne 4 Ad me●orem vitam intentionem an intention and earnest resolution to liue better afterwardes To forgiue vs our sinnes the certaintie of this remission is assured vs by many presidents in scripture Dauid sinned but vppon his confession God being faithfull and iust forgaue him Ahab confessed his sinne and humbled ●●in 21 29 himselfe before God and he sawe not the euil that was threatned in his daves And so did the Niniuites and were not destroied though the hande of the Lord were alreadie stretched out within fortie daies to consume Luk. 15 22. them The prodigall sonne was receiued with great welcomes vpon his confession Notwithstanding the inuincible truth of this doctrine yet Satan whose pollicie is euer to hinder mans saluation thought to draw men from the vnderstanding hereof and shuffled into mens heads diuers errors about remission of sinne First that not God alone but man also may forgiue sins whence the selling of pardons proceeded Secondly that venial sin may be forgiuen with the infusion of diuine and heauenly grace Thirdly that there is no remission where there is not open confession to the priest Fourthly that remission of sinnes may be after this life which opinion is defended by magister sententiarum and this is the roote of Purgatorie The Pellagians affirmed that when sinne is forgiuen the punishment is also forgiuen and therefore they say the death of the bodie is not the reward of originall sinne And so they say Adam had died a bodily death whether he had sinned or not but we know it to be otherwise And these are the Locusts that creepe Reuel ● forth of the bottomlesse pit The Pelagians in maintaining this erro● crosse these scriptures In ●udore vultus in the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bread God forgaue the sinne but the punishment still remaines God pronounced against Eue in sorrow Gen. 3. shalt thou bring foorth God pardoned the sinne but the punishment yet remaineth Dauid by confession of his sin got pardon yet the Prophet told him he should be humbled by his sonne But let these errors passe and leaue we them to him that deuised them which is the diuell who hath bin a lier from the beginning trueth will triumph ouer falshoode and the arke wil stand when Dagon falles One droppe remaineth behind vndistilled the pure Quintessence whereof being in due mixture added to this cleare fountaine of christalline water wil grace the same with a matchlesse perfection When this is supplied nothing will be wanting as nothing was lacking to the fiue Mat. 25 4. wise virgins when their lampes were burning And to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse God will not only remit sinne but he will take it cleane away as Moses said he Exo. 10. 26 woulde not leaue an hoofe behinde so God in purging wil not leaue a spot behind but we shal be throughly cleansed and made white like Abosolom who from the sole of his foote to the top of his head had no blemish 2. Sam. 14. 25. in him How filthie and polluted soeuer we were before yet nowe wee shall be cleane and white whiter than Naaman after so many washings In the one and twentieth of the Reuelation it is written that the city of god is founded vpon precious stones and in the ende of the Chapter it is said there shall no vncleane thing enter into it shewing that the soule of man must be cleane The Lord by Esay sayth I wil blot out all thine iniquities And if the wicked man wil turne from his wickednes I will remēber his sins no more In the sixt of the Reuelation mention is made of those that were vnder the Altar the Altar is